What is Theatre Author:Eric Bentley Eric Bentley's chronicle of the American theatre is brought up to the present moment in this book, a companion volume to THE DRAMATIC EVENT. More than a chronicle, is discusses the modern theatre as a whole and presents a provocative and important point of view. The final chapter is actually a theatrical manifesto that some readers have compar... more »ed favorably with Gordan Craig's Art of the Theatre or Brecht's Little Organum. Many will find it highly controversial; some will say that it delivers a knock-out blow to Walter Kerr's How Not to Write a Play, much as Shaw's Sanity of Art did to Nordau's Degeration.« less